DOWN
Banned
Yeah, I think heist and the bank are brilliant. It's an awesome fortress capture-the-flag mode with the fun premise of it being a huge LA Michael Mann Heat shoutout. It's really well done. That's not $60 of game there, but I would have bought that DLC for BF4.I really want to hate this game. I really want to see it fail. I'm still bitter over the BF4 shit show and I'm convinced that EA is determined to drive this series into the ground - wringing out every single dollar it can out of it along the way. I don't want to support this. We should all be furious that this game still exhibits much of the technical faults that BF4 experience on it's launch, 16 months ago. I agree with Gamespot that this Frostbite engine is holding this entire generation of Battlefield games back. And then they have the almighty balls to charge $60 + DLC for this.
But there's something I learned about myself this past week. After thousands of hours in this franchise, Battlefield has its hooks in me, for better or worse. And despite all its problems, I found a lot of fun in Hardline, especially Heist and the exceptional made-for-Heist bank map. Sure it has got some pretty serious balancing issues (but what BF doesn't?) and Dustbowl is a boring map that drags down pretty much any match played on it. But this stuff can be remedied. Historically, DICE breaks as much as they fix, but maybe Visceral can help break this trend. At this point though, I think I'm going to blow $60 to find out. Very much looking forward to next month...
.... but switching to the PS4 version, because fuck hackers.
I must say I like the challenge objectives and upgrade system a little more in Hardline too though.